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Korea Would Standardize Insurers' Assumption Ledgers Before Setting the Capital Adjustment
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Korea Would Standardize Insurers' Assumption Ledgers Before Setting the Capital Adjustment
Korea's proposal would give supervisors a consistent annual assumption trail and boards notice of material midyear ch...
Nscale Counts $103.4 Billion of Compute Value. $2.6 Billion Is Active.
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Nscale Counts $103.4 Billion of Compute Value. $2.6 Billion Is Active.
The IPO filing puts 25,000 of 461,000 active-plus-contracted GPUs in service while customer prepayments, delivery con...
China Standardized the Data-Asset Ledger. Valuation Still Has No Common Unit.
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China Standardized the Data-Asset Ledger. Valuation Still Has No Common Unit.
Two national standards make data-asset records more consistent, but neither supplies ownership title, a valuation met...
SEBI Proposes Market-Level Cyber Rules for Exchange Technology Subsidiaries
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SEBI Proposes Market-Level Cyber Rules for Exchange Technology Subsidiaries
Two linked consultations would extend exchange-grade cyber controls to subsidiaries and formalise who can run critica...
Google and Amazon Turn AI Chip Orders Into Options on Their Suppliers
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Google and Amazon Turn AI Chip Orders Into Options on Their Suppliers
Purchase-linked warrants align years of custom engineering, but they also transfer part of the supplier upside to the...
Japan's AI Export Boom Is Still More Price Than Volume
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Japan's AI Export Boom Is Still More Price Than Volume
August export value rose 19.3 percent while quantity increased 2.5 percent, confirming that pricing power still domin...
China's Banks Are Underwriting AI Token Burn. The Metric Can Be Gamed.
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China's Banks Are Underwriting AI Token Burn. The Metric Can Be Gamed.
Several Chinese lenders now count AI usage when assessing asset-light firms. The useful question is whether token bur...
Outside Five Legacy Hoards, Treasuries Still Lead Gold by About $1 Trillion
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Outside Five Legacy Hoards, Treasuries Still Lead Gold by About $1 Trillion
A celebrated reserve crossover relies on price gains and inherited stocks. Remove the five largest old holders and th...
Mexico Pairs a Digital-Payments Bill With a Card-Fee and Terminal Proposal
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Mexico Pairs a Digital-Payments Bill With a Card-Fee and Terminal Proposal
Mexico is combining a proposed sector mandate with lower card fees and interoperable terminals, a three-part attempt ...
Argentina Reclassifies Banks Without Waiting for Confirmation
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Argentina Reclassifies Banks Without Waiting for Confirmation
The BCRA collapsed three bank groups into two, widened the measurement window and removed the confirmation period. A ...
The UAE Deadline That Actually Binds This Week Is the SME Rulebook, Not the Central Bank Law
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The UAE Deadline That Actually Binds This Week Is the SME Rulebook, Not the Central Bank Law
Article 184's reconciliation period can be extended by the central bank's board. Circular 2/2026, in force on 13 Sept...
Vietnam Joins the Emerging-Market Index on September 21. Its Brokers Underwrite the Trades Until 2027.
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Vietnam Joins the Emerging-Market Index on September 21. Its Brokers Underwrite the Trades Until 2027.
The first tranche moves about 220 million dollars, and the settlement risk that unlocked the upgrade sits on Vietname...